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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What verse was cited in that day's devotional?

2. How did Yun react to a recording played during his trial?

3. How did Yun get a passport?

4. What was the goal of the Prophet Samuel Training Centre?

5. Why does China have a "one-child law"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What devastating news did Yun hear in Chapter Twenty-Five?

2. If Yun could not walk due to his severe beatings, how did he escape at all?

3. In Chapter Sixteen, what were the conditions of Yun's release?

4. How did the Christians begin to help people who violated the "one child law" as Yun and Deling had?

5. While Yun was in prison, his wife and mother worked their family fields. What did they do, and what was the result?

6. In Chapter Twenty-Three, what was Yun's life like after the prison escape?

7. How did Brother Xu attempt to help Yun?

8. In Chapter Twenty-One, Deling was jailed with Yun. How did their children avoid being taken by the government?

9. When the prison camp officials ordered the prisoners to write a plan for their lives, how was Yun encouraged to renew his walk with God?

10. What did Yun say was the difference between the Western church and the Chinese church as far as sermon content?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

As the book ends, Yun recounted his life and his many struggles as well as his triumphs. Looking back, do you think he had any regrets? Was there anything he would have changed or done differently? Provide any quote(s) from Yun to support your argument.

Essay Topic 2

In Chapter Two, Yun wrote that God intervened in his life by healing his father. This is the first of many miraculous healings we read about in this book.

Part 1) Recount from the book at least three different times that Yun attributed a miraculous healing to God. Name the person healed and the circumstances.

Part 2) Did Yun view the healing as a means to an end? What would that end be?

Part 3) Did Yun downplay healings or exalt them? Why?

Essay Topic 3

Yun met varying degrees of commitment from Christians as he traveled to different parts of China. Some were willing to risk all, even their lives to help Yun, others were fearful and would not help at all. Why do you think this was so? What could make the responses vary so widely? Did Yun judge those Christians, or harbor bitterness towards them?

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